Star Wars

This week the first look we've had up close and personal with the creators and the artwork behind Star Wars Rebels is close at hand. What we're seeing here is a preview for the animated show that'll take place between the 3rd and 4th Star Wars movies. That is to say - making a bridge between the prequel trilogy and the classic, original trilogy with storyline.

It was a news-filled night last night in the technology universe, that's for certain. It was suggested on one hand that the CEO of Motorola was on his way out, and on the other hand that Comcast was about to lay down a plan to purchase Time Warner Cable. Then there were Lenovo earnings and NVIDIA earnings and Netflix announced they'd be getting the final season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Lost Missions as well - as an exclusive release!

Netflix has announced a big win for fans of the Star Wars universe. Netflix has signed with an agreement with Disney and Lucasfilm that will see the sixth and final season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars as a Netflix subscriber exclusive. The show will air in the US and Canada starting on Friday, March 7.

Back in the year 1995, before Star Wars was released as a set of "Special Edition" movies, before the idea that a set of prequels would be created was made solid, the film series was released to VHS. On these tapes - on the 1995 edition of these tapes, that is - a long-running interview was included before each film began. The first of these interviews was published digitally - officially - for the first time today.

BioWare announced back in October of 2013 that it was working on an expansion pack for the Star Wars: The Old Republic video game called Galactic Starfighter. In December 2013, the expansion pack went live for early access subscribers. BioWare has now announced that the expansion pack is available for all players of the game.

Unless you live under a rock, you know that Disney purchased Lucasfilm and with it the rights to make some new Star Wars films. We learned recently that the script of Star Wars 7 was complete. A number of rumors have been turning up about the cast of the new flick as well.

Speaking at the Television Critics Association summer press tour yesterday, J.J. Abrams talked about his upcoming Star Wars efforts, as well as elaborating on some things to the folks over at The Wrap. Abrams confirmed the script for the much-anticipated Star Wars Episode VII has been wrapped up, and that they're all "working really hard" and "in deep prep. Full steam ahead, y'know."

An animator by the name of James Farr has created a piece of artwork that allows our imaginations to run wild in a real crossover universe. This universe involves both Star Wars and Nintendo, bringing on not just a falsified gameplay demo, but a whole mini story and episode. Even if you’re not especially in on either universe, the style is worth the tap.

The first time we heard that George Lucas was working on a new company HQ for Singapore was back in 2011. The HQ for Singapore isn’t a normal looking building; rather it looks like an iconic vehicle from the Star Wars franchise called the Sandcrawler. The Sandcrawler is the mobile fortress home of the Jawas on Tatooine from the Star Wars IV film.

Coming completely out of left field with a release of Star Wars headphones - officially licensed and everything - was 50 Cent and SMS Audio. It’s difficult to describe the way this new cross-section of Star Wars headphones looks and feels without being there with them in your own hands, as it were. It’s almost as if they’re made to look like they’re made for children, but continue to impose the possibility of high-end sound - an interesting market to be going after, for sure.